Epidemiologic Study Design: Descriptive and Analytic Studies, Case Reports, Ecologic, Cross-Sectional, Case-Control, Cohort and Trial Designs

A lecture on epidemiologic study design that splits the field into descriptive and analytic studies and then works through each design in turn - the case report and case series, ecologic studies, cross-sectional studies with the measures of disease frequency and association, case-control studies, cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. Every design is taught on a published study, with the arithmetic of prevalence, odds ratio and relative risk done on the worked example and the advantages and limitations stated for each.